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Recovering bootloader of an Arduino Nano v3.0 – usbasp

I bought my second Arduino Nano v3.0, at Deal ExtremeArduino Nano , as always I quickly unpacked to do a quick hello world test in it. Unfortunately my test failed, and I was unable to upload my program. After some research at the net, I found several tutorials to program the Arduino’s bootloader, so I give it a try. SParkfun has a very good tutorial on how program the bootloader, including unsing another Arduino as the USBAsp programmer.

If you don’t know, the bootloader is a small program that was written by the Arduino developers, this makes an easy interaction with IDE. Without it Arduino IDE can not upload you programs. I already have an USPAsp programmer, also bought on Dx, and you can also find several USPAsp programmers on Ebay.

You can buy your programmer USBASP HERE, that made the process very easy.

I tried to use another Arduino, but as I struggled doing this, and as I had the USBAsp progrmmer, I used it. SparkFun has the tutorial on this link .

Here is what I did
1 – Connect the calble on Arduino and USBAsp

USBAsp pinout

Arduino Nano pinout.

The cable should be like this:

Mosi is pin 1 of UsbASP SPI Conector and Miso is pin 1 of Arduino SPI Conector . Count the pins up to down and left to right.

1 2
3 4
5 6

I used windows, and you need and USBASP driver , downloaded from this link

Then, you use you owm Arduino installation to program your bootloader.
Connect your just programmed Arduino on your USB, ( disconnecting everything else ).
Start your your Arduino IDE, choose the correcy board (Arduino Nano 328, and programmer – usbasp )
During the procedure you will see an orange led blinking, as the bootloader is programmed.
That’s it!

After that I wrote a small Hello world and sucessfully saw it? results on my serial monitor.